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I agree with Robert. So of course with the Clarks examples pages may be: Clarks Boots Clarks Sandals Clarks Slippers And each of those pages would be different. Filled with contextually rich content surrounding those terms. "It won't put you on the 1st page" - I don't agree with this. I have many clients who have been hoiked up to page one by adding contextually relevant content to a key phrase (Brand + Category) constructed the page. If you _are _the brand and you construct pages like this (With 300+ words contextual content) you will be No. 1 or 2 in Google, never mind just on the front page. Just search 'Carousel Projects SEO' Regards Nigel

Hi there The only way to "get the top spots" in Google is to make sure your site abides by SEO best practices, that great content is being written, and that you are building great backlinks. If you are conducting proper keyword research for your content, then you should be able to find a healthy balance between the language your target audience uses and what keywords get a healthy amount of search volume in search engines. Use these words / phrases naturally in your content and you'll be just fine. Remember - Google is fantastic and making connections between topics and variations. If you are able to write your content that methodically uses these keywords, and your pages are optimized, then look into your link building strategy to begin distributing your content more effectively. Also - don't forget to be conduct ongoing audits of your website as this will help / hinder ongoing search engine performance. Hope this all helps! Good luck! Patrick

My site fell from 46,000,000 to 62,000,000 (ahrefs rank, sorry moz... guess you will have to index me) on July 6, 2017, I saw no reason for it. I still do not know why. I had no unusual indexing increase prior to or during that time. I have given up on finding out why. If you learn any thing please share it.

Hi there, Your title is important, a single H1 is important and then you should use a good hierarchy of H2, H3, H4's etc. So to answer your question, yes! Make sure you review all your pages and their H1s (one per page) and the rest of the H's! Hope this helps. Good luck! Katarina

Yes, definitely fix this issue, as sooner or later Google will see that your website speed is experiencing errors. I would check with your website host for speed, optimization and reliability.

The search engines will recognize it, only if you tell it to recognize it. So if you're dealing with a small site I think the second option is better but if we are talking about a big ecommerce more than 100,000 product maybe 3 options is better

Hi Ironically MOZ will pick this up as a problem as it reports anything that is noindexed! For me I just ignore noindex as a problem in certain cases as clearly it makes perfect sense to noindex certain pages and indeed sometimes whole directories. I sometimes find that developers have noindexed directories like /new-products or /sale but clearly there are better ways of handling the potential duplicate problem here by adding a canonical. In you case it makes no sense having Google index the checkout pages. Regards Nigel

Q1. I'm not a domainer, but it's been my general experience that trying to negotiate directly with the owner has a much wider range of risk/reward. In other words, you might be able to contact them and get it for $250, or they might be completely insane and want $250,000 for junk, even though every other person on earth knows that's ridiculous. With the fixed-price sales, you can at least make that decision of whether it's worth the price tag for you. That decision, though, isn't primarily an SEO decision, IMO, it's a business decision. Paying $1,000 for the right domain could be an incredible bargain if this site is your bread and butter and the name is critical. It could be a huge waste of money if this is your personal blog and a hundred different names would do just as well. It's really hard to advise you in a vacuum. If you asked me if $1,000 was a good price for an iPad, I could confidently say "no", but the value of a domain is highly subjective. Q2. I don't believe there's any kind of outright penalty. Hyphenated domains do often correlate with spammy domains, and it may be one signal of many Google considers, but I think they look at it clustered with other factors (that's speculative on my part). So, if your domain looks spammy on other dimensions and you've got a hyphenated, keyword-loaded domain, then yes, it might cause you problems. I don't think you'll get whacked just because of the hyphens. I do think that hyphenated domains have a general trust issue with humans, though. It's not insurmountable, but I tend to agree with Michael -- there's always a non-hyphenated variant or an alternate TLD (even a .co) that's worth considering. Unless you're Eugene's Discount Widgets and your board will not settle for an domain but a .com with those three words in it and no other words, there are probably non-hyphenated options worth exploring.

Hi, Google wants to offer the best experience. If the website's grammar is a disaster, it might prefer better presented content. Another thing is visitors - they too want the best experience. Moreover, there is a trust issue when the website looks like the content was created overnight by an illiterate person. This will look like the company cannot afford to employ educated people, not mentioning proofreaders. This will certainly result in higher bounce rates, unless the grammar errors are entertaining and reading the content is actually fun! I would suggest to you to mention this to your client, editing doesn't need to be expensive. Good luck! Katarina

Hey there, Regarding the tech issues, if Google has any difficulties with crawling your site (duplicates included), it can't reach the content and links you have there. Therefore, it's crucial to solve the tech issues first to help Google crawl your site as smoothly as possible so it can see your content. Also, anytime the page expires, redirect it with 301 to a similar one. Feel free to shoot other questions. Cheers, Martin

Hello vtmoz, I think your questions is very difficult to answer correctly. Domains are not weighted the same. Even high quality domains are not weighted the same. Where are the links coming from DA 100 or DA 25 links. DA is more difficult to increase the higher a domain is, if you have a DA 20 site and want to increase it to a DA 30 site it would have to have a good mix of high DA links. Every ten DA after that the quality needs to be the same or higher and exponentially more links from those higher DA sites. DA 100 sites like Facebook have millions of links. If you want to see the link profiles of your competitors, use the open site explorer and research the higher DA sites and see who links to them. Then try to emulate the links that are relevant to your niche. Thanks, Don

Excellent! Any other sites to share?

The only issue I could see would be how different your 'product' pages are to your off site transaction pages. I'm thinking duplicate content issues. As long as teh content is different on each though I can't see any issues personally

No,,,, it does not harm you,,, But if you add Sitemap in the footer.  it will help google too and another search engine to crawl your site efficiently. You can use mini sitemap for your site and place it in the footer here is a link. https://www.hitechwork.com/add-text-hyper-link-sitemap-in-footer-wordpress/

Of course google knows the difference......so maybe are wondering how google knows. Is very simple, google or the algorithm compares user intent vs keywords vs user behavior. Example I have website with a generic domain name such as dietpills.com, and by miracle Im in the first place so google start to compare 1000 users use the term "dietpills". So google put my site in firts place. But the Of 1000 just 20% of the user click on my site (Users read the description and the tittle and they ignore my website so or my website needs to optimize the descrition and tittle or my website is not relevant to the users) but is ok ...lets keep thinking ok 20% (200) of the users clicked on my website but 150 or 15% what ever you want ....leave the website before 30 seconds (Google units to measure the Bounce rate). So whats happen? 95% of the users on the experiment was not interested on the website. for Google that means your website does not deserve be in the firts place. Using the dietpills.com as example. The best option for me is create themes or topics base on the dietpills such as diets pills for woman diets pills for man dietpills review (reviews is theme by it self) --- review brand 01 --- review brand 02 --- review brand 03 --- review brand 04 so the term "dietpill" has a differents meaning for a 20 years old girl in Arkansas or 55 years old man from Los Angeles, so to get the firts place I has to be as useful for both, the girl and the older man but ....how I can do it So simple.... create relevant content for boths. If you want some advices you can email me to romandelcarmen@gmail.com

Thanks a lot guys!

This is more of a UX questions, but generally if you are delivering a help content, opening it up in a tab is fine. Many times there will be other on pages interactions that a visitor may want to make as well, so you do not want to remove them completely from the page.

Hi Martin, Sent you a private message Thank you